Monnik Fish, 1574
The monkfish is a fabled animal that would be closely related to the bishop fish, also an untimely animal, and both would originate from the Triton and the moors of ancient Mesopotamia.
These "saints" are described in the Fisher's book of Conrad Gesner. The animal has a shaved head and a father's habit. A variation of the monkfish is the Chinese monkfish; This is a desperate animal that can cope with jonken. Sometimes seamen would have caught a monkfish during a storm at sea.
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